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Title: | Evolution of cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury: is there improvement after controlling the practice effect? [supplementary material] |
Other Titles: | Evolución de las alteraciones cognitivas tras un traumatismo craneoencefálico: ¿hay mejoría tras controlar el efecto de la práctica? [material suplementario] |
Author: | Lubrini, Genny Viejo Sobera, Raquel Periañez Morales, José Antonio Cicuendez, Marta Castaño, Ana M. González Marqués, Javier Lagares, Alfonso Ríos Lago, Marcos |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Keywords: | cognitive performance longitudinal design evolution practice recuperation memory |
Publisher: | Revista de Neurología |
Citation: | Lubrini, G., Viejo-Sobera, R., Periáñez, J.A., Cicuendez, M., Castaño, A.M., González-Marqués, J., Lagares, A. & Ríos-Lago, M. (2020). Evolución de las alteraciones cognitivas tras un traumatismo craneoencefálico: ¿hay mejoría tras controlar el efecto de la práctica?. Revista de Neurología, 70(2), 37-44. doi: 10.33588/rn.7002.2019233 |
Also see: | https://doi.org/10.33588/rn.7002.2019233 |
Abstract: | The importance of knowing the pattern of evolution of cognitive deficits in the first months after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) has encouraged the development of numerous longitudinal studies. However, the results of most of them should be taken with caution due to the lack of adequate control of practice effects that can lead to overestimating the genuine recovery of cognitive processes. To describe the cognitive changes between the acute and subacute phases of the TBI controlling the effect of practice. Patients and methods. Twenty-two patients were assessed in two different time points after TBI (immediately and after six months) using the following tests: Trail Making Test (A, B, B/A, B-A), Stroop Test (W, C, CW, interference), Digit Symbol-Coding, Symbol Search, Digits Forward and Backward, Verbal Fluency and Short-term Memory. To control for the practice effects, a transformation of the scores was performed applying the procedure proposed by Calamia et al. Before controlling the practice effects, the scores of all tests improved (p > 0.001). However, afterward, the improvement remained only in the Trail Making Test-B, B/A and B-A, Digit Symbol-Coding, Symbol Search, Stroop CW and Digits Backward. The lack of control of practice effects in longitudinal studies can generate misleading interpretations about the evolution of cognitive defi cits. The pattern of recovery after a TBI varies depending on the cognitive process. |
Language: | English Spanish |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10609/102506 |
ISSN: | 1576-6578MIAR 0210-0010MIAR |
Appears in Collections: | Articles Articles cientÍfics |
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